Former Red Raider designs home for victims of Texas wildfire

Volunteer firefighter recipient of new home

Posted: November 30, 2012 - 12:07pm

AVALANCHE-JOURNAL

Texas Tech alumnus Donovan Davis assisted in an upcoming episode of ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. Davis has a 30-year career in architecture and is president of Austin-based Danze & Davis Architects Inc.

Heart of Pines Volunteer Fire Department’s Mizzy Zdroj, who fought the Bastrop County Complex fire in September and October 2011, is the episode’s recipient of a new home. She and her husband, Chris, and their twin sons lost their house, a farm, an art studio and all their possessions in the fire, including Chris’s extensive Star Wars collection.

The home was completed in four and a half days, with help from about 3,000 volunteers, BMX biker Matt Hoffman and chef Art Smith. Even a few Imperial Storm Troopers pitched in to help, courtesy of a group of Lucas Films approved Star Wars re-enactors called Vader’s Fist.

This episode of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition will air at 7 p.m. Monday on ABC, as a holiday special.

Davis, a second-generation architect, graduated from Texas Tech in 1984.